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Robert Fouser, Exploring Cities with Robert Fouser (로버트 파우저의 도시 탐구기) (2019)
An American linguist-urbanist remembers the cities he's known, from Ann Arbor to Tokyo to Dublin to Seoul — and does so entirely in Korean
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Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (1991)
Postwar developments like Irvine or Tysons Corner may be ambitious, but will they ever develop proper urban civilization? Three decades ago, one…
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M. Nolan Gray, Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (2022)
An extremely online city planner makes the case against an institution wrongly assumed to be necessary
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Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990)
Does Mike Davis' grim but celebrated assessment of power, violence, and globalization in Los Angeles hold up three decades later?
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Juan Villoro, Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico (2021)
The temptations of a sinking, brown-aired, mismanaged, inescapably stimulating metropolis
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Witold Rybczynski, City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995)
Why doesn't North America have a London or Paris? An architect-critic explains
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Joan Didion, Miami (1987)
The late Slouching Towards Bethlehem author reports from less a "wicked pastel boomtown" than a bitter and paranoid tropical fever dream
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In the Los Angeles Review of Books: Tokyo Junkie (Robert Whiting, 2021)
My latest piece for the Los Angeles Review of Books is on Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys… and Baseball, a memoir by American…
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Colin Marshall's Books on Cities
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